The text block is fundamental to creating any typographic system, whether on the page or on screen. But what typeface to use and at what size? How do we determine line length and leading? And what about readability and...
Read MoreThere is more to the texts of type specimens than the ubiquitous “Quousque tandem abutere…” of Cicero’s first oration against Catiline. Careful reading of type specimens, especially those of the nineteenth century,...
Read MoreLetterform Archive’s fifth gallery exhibition, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer, explores the bold language, graphic typography, and colorful layering in a wide variety of printed artifacts such as broadsides, maps,...
Read MoreIn this Member Nerd Out, we’ll guide you through our favorite examples of concrete poetry and asemic writing in the Letterform Archive collection. This presentation will be followed by an opportunity to show some objects from...
Read MoreAround the turn of the 19th century, a revolution left the world of typography utterly different from what it had been. The explosion of new type styles during this period—including the modern face, the fat face, the slab serif,...
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